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A classroom prank at Stoney Creek Elementary in northeast Charlotte took a scary turn when a student was impaled by a pencil left point-up on a seat, according to school staff. Employees quickly called for emergency responders, and medics arrived to find the child awake and responding normally. Staff did not remove...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — Nearly three paychecks missed, and counting. TSA officers affected by the partial federal government shutdown are turning to the Charlotte community for help making ends meet. Joshua Santos, a lead TSA officer at Charlotte Douglas International Airport, stopped by the Billy Graham...

Charlotte is charging ahead with an ambitious Uptown experiment, the North Tryon Tech Hub, even as automation jitters and corporate cuts shake the local tech scene. The plan pulls together university research, corporate partners and fresh programming on underused First Ward parcels, with a goal of turning AI...

Five men with prior felony convictions are headed back to federal prison after Charlotte-area stops turned up loaded handguns, some of them stolen, according to court records. Their new sentences range from 30 to 70 months and all stem from separate Charlotte‑Mecklenburg Police Department encounters. CMPD Stops Spark...

Sometimes the best meals come with absolutely no decisions required, and Supperland in Charlotte proves that unlimited options can be even better than unlimited portions. This isn’t your typical buffet experience where you’re dodging sneeze guards and wondering how long that mac and cheese has been sitting under the...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - Even as one of the 10 busiest airports in the U.S., Charlotte Douglas International Airport is not seeing the multi-hour waits to get through security, like at other airports of similar size. Lines to get through TSA security have snaked around airports amid a partial government...

The victim's son, 51-year-old Drazan Sinanovic, was arrested at the scene.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police homicide detectives are digging into a deadly shooting in east Charlotte after a man was found shot along the 5800 block of Albemarle Road near Central Avenue. Officers say the victim, identified as Luis Daniel Gutierrez Mora, was hit by gunfire at about 2 a.m. on March 22 and rushed to a...

Andre Lamar Sumner, 41 and Erren Woodson, 40, participated in a conspiracy between 2022 and 2024 that targeted high-end dealerships, rental car companies and private owners.

A man deported from Texas years ago is facing new immigration charges after being charged in a fatal Charlotte hit and run. Luis Alberto Miranda-Vilchis, 36, was arrested and charged in county court in a Beatties Ford Road crash that killed 58-year-old James Leon Hall in October. On Monday, he appeared for the first...